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September
Here we have all content posted to voicesmagazine.org in the month of September.
FloridaStudent is tased by Police
So many of you have heard about the student who was arrested after he was tasered by Police at an event that Senator John Kerry was speaking at. The student asked a few questions and during that time the power to the mic was cut off, the police tried to escort him out with force. He then is tasered and held down. He spent a night in jail.......and for what?
He just asked a few questions. Even John Kerry says as the kid is being taken away, "let me answer his question". When the fuck are people going to see what has been taking place? What democracy do we have when you can't even talk and use the freedom of speech? Who was the one who thought he should have been removed? Did the police do it on their own? Did John Kerry nod to somebody who told the police he has to go? What is the big deal? Let the kid ask his questions and then answer the questions and then let it go.
I have got news for some of you Americans who are so proud to live here. That perception is going to change and will change when you get off you fat lazy ass's and do a little research. No CNN, CBS, and fuckin' FOX are not telling you what you need to find out. They are part of the problem. If you plan on being an American any longer than you must understand that there are forces at work who want to further make you a slave. Put your fuckin Ipod down for a second and do a little research.
When people say that these things are happening like Chemtrails, the North American Union, molten metal at the bottom of World Trade Center 7, and Tower 1 & 2, Some of the Hijackers are still alive who were claimed to be on those planes, Prescot Bush the grandfather of our pinhead President helped Hitler, the Federal Reserve that prints your money is actuallly a private corporation, the list goes on take your pick.
Do some research and connect the dots, you will see where they are leading and listen people you are not invited to that party. You are being laughed at by the ruling class elite. Their money and power keeps them out of jail while they commit serious crimes. They want you to be dumb, fat and drugged. Education and knowledge of what they are doing will truly set you free.
The end of the worlds is not coming, but the end of freedom as we know it is. I propose a New Tea Party. I say we teach these mutherfuckers that good people, good Americans are so strong that we will give them a backlash so powerful THEY will be in "shock and awe".
People who are at their wits end, have nothing to lose and therefore are much more dangerous than any rich ruling class elite. America was founded because we had to leave what at the time was the oppressive nature of England. I think we came here and destroyed the Indians and that was horrible. But now the same opressive nature that we fought to get away from has grown within our own ranks
It's time for a New Tea Party, now who the fuck is with me?
Bush says fuck you!
This fucker has got some real class!
Compulsory Skin
Their sound has been called "Bjork meets NIN, a female version of Trent Reznor, even the harder version of DepecheMode." But let me tell you the sound of this female led mystery has a haunting vibe, tickling your chin as you feet leave the floor. It's the ghost of your dead wifes perfume, fogging up the room, reminding you how sweet life can be.
Voices Magazines own Erica Bathym interviews Compulsory Skin for our upcoming double Halloween issue. This is very exciting for us because now we have the pleasure of adding Germany to the list of countries that have created an excellent band to grace our pages. I personally look forward to this interview because their sound is so stirring it makes me rethink what I feel good music is right now.
Their sound resonates through you forcefully while the soft and at times gritty-kitty voice of PiaPale lure you towards the grave. They must be amazing live and we hope to work with this band on other projects but for now enjoy the music! Special thanks to Erica Bathym for securing this and Compulsory Skin for allowing us to showcase their sound to our readers.
Click Here to hear their music and stay tuned the full interview with Compulsory Skin is in our Hallloween issue due out in the first week of October!
Tattoo Culture Breeds New Art Forms
Voices Magazine has introduced many tattoo artist to new people who may not have seen them otherwise. It is in our best interest to showcase the new things that fuel an ever growing community of art lovers. This video explores the nature of tattoos but more importantly introduces "collaboration painting." This art fusion has multiple artist throwing down paint in a collective way that shapes and morphs the canvas of a painting so much that it is really the first time that we have seen this in the mainstream.
To my knowledge the tattoo community was the first to create this art form and has done it several different ways. Brian Murphy who is a tattoo artist that we have featured before in our magazine does collaborations with others like Dan Hazleton. They start a project and then take turns doing work on it, sending it back and forth until the peice is eventually abandoned as all agood art needs to be.
The video belows showcases a similar even in which live events have artist getting together and they are painting in front of a crowd. Historians say this is the firs of its kind and I can't wait for our magazine to get more people involved with this.
What the fuck?
I have nothing to say about this except, "What the fuck?."
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Razy Robo-The Matrix
Check out this video with Razy Robo doin' his thing.
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Optical Illusion
This video is an optical illusion that once you follow all the prompts you will see some strange things at the end. NO it's not one of those scary videos...I promise. Just watch it and follow the instructions.
Crazy Optical Illusion - More bloopers are a click away
Culture: Bobby Black
50 Cent, Mtv News Gripe
Ahhhhhh fuck! I had to talk about this shit. First of all let me say something about Mtv. They are the double edged sword. They are a jumbled mess of ass-fucks who have no idea what is going in the street as far as hip hop, and even if they did they can't even rep. real hip hop because of their censorship walls.
For God's sake they had to fucking create Mtv 2 & 3 just to show videos because their stupid mash up's of road Rules and The Real World were filling up the slots. Fucking stop that shit and put that on Mtv 2 & 3. People want music!......... I THOUGHT YOU WERE MUSIC TELEIVISION RIGHT?
So recently Mtv had a panel of "professionals" sit around and argue over who the top 10 emcee's/rap artists are in the game RIGHT now. This was a total bullshit list and let me tell you why. There is an essence of hip hop that has some basic principles and I think those principles have changed dramatically over the years.
In the begining you have the conscious emcee's spilling out onto the streets creating hip hop as we know it. Then the west comes alive and you have the birth of gangsta rap. Theres a wave of San Fran rappers who drive that whole upper west coast. Then you have an influx of southern rap like Ghetto Boys, 5th Ward and such. Then the south really comes alive with Lil Jon and T.I. and others. Sure you have big names all over during this time but this is just a basic run down.
Hip Hop has always been about swagger and, "Hey I got more than you, I can kill you, I'm better than you." So it's no wonder that the bullshit bling-bling swagger has stayed alive so long. It sucks and ask any hip hop fan who is well versed and they will tell you that part of hip hop sucks.
Nas comes out and says hip hop is dead and in some ways he is right and in some ways he is wrong. Mainstream hip hop is bubblegum shit anyway. Kanye West, yeah I'm talking to you, and most any "rap" that they play on the air. Just ask Nelly and Krs-one about that. Krs-one still tears the mic down but does the radio play it? No. But Nelly gets air time? Come on.
You see my piont is Mtv in it's infinte wisdom played a huge part in the death of Biggie and Pac by created the "East vs. West" war even though it was a fued between a few people only. They pollute the heads of young potential hip hop buyers with this candy bullshit. 50 cent might have sold shit loads of albums but people don't dig him any more. Club play will get you to sell records but it's wack and played out.
But in 50's defense he states in this Mtv interview below that the person who was dubbed by Mtv as the greatest emcee in the game right now shouldn't have been beacause nobody can even name that person's tracks and shit 50 even wrote three of them. I'm talking about Lil Wayne. I know you barley know him and that is why this list is wrong.
The list was wriiten based on the thoughts and opinions from a team of people who know Lil Wayne, but the whole country or the world does not. And lets face it there is a difference between an emcee and a rapper. Rappers are on the radio and with the exception of a few dope emcee's that slip through it's all shaved to fit these pop categories. Emcee's are the true heart of that music genre. People like Krs-One, Game, Common, Talib Kweli, Mos Def and others of the like minded.
Mtv says these are the hottest in the game right now.
10. Jim Jones
9. Common
8. 50 Cent
7. Jay-Z
6. Young Jeezy
5. Kanye West
4. Andre 3000
3. Game
2. T.I.
1. Lil Wayne
So I watched this show and the "roundtable" of jackasses...with the exception of Sway were going back and forth and this is what they came up with. This list is ridiculous. I'm a huge fan of hip hop but Lil Wayne? I can't name one song from him. Don't get me wrong though I'm not saying he sucks but I think he is a rapper and yes it's true his style is hot over there but the west coast still reps strong concious and gangsta rap, rather than the southern bling attack. That shit is fucking done you guys. Why don'y you use your lyrical power to make change.
Hip Hop fans want tight beats with rythmic sound and lyrics that tell a good story. I can't identify with faggots who wear more money around their neck and wrist then I have made in my entire life. I see it as a waste of money when there are people in these bitches old nieghborhoods who are getting enslaved by "the man." These rappers showcase a life that young mutherfuckers are trying to get by any means necessary. Has this ever really changed? No. But I'm say that it needs to. Listen to heads like Blu, Ominous Words and others who are emcee's to the bone. Fuck Eminem, yeah he's had some killer tracks but he sucked Mtv's dick for so long, fuck him. And 50 Cent, he is played out, his records mean nothing to me. If you wear bling your a fucking asshole, not cause I'm a hater. Not cause I'm jealous. If I was making that much dough, I would buy some shit hell yeah. but not that shit. I'd start helping people get a head, help some homeless. I'd fight the government at their own game. Something besides that shit.
So my rant was to provoke you out there to respond. Email me at info@voicesmagazine.org and tell me what you think. If you hate me fine, fuck you, email me anyways. But for you young cats you better realize that hip hop now is not hip hop. You gotta listen to the underground to hear true heart. Dollar bills cause cancer and hip hop has a huge fuckin' tumor. I have a knife and I'm cutting. Pick the side you wanna rep before your a bloody glob of shit in the trash.
For more on 50, check out Jayson's story at MTVNews.com.
To the drunk bum on the A-train
Written By Jen Mantis
I swear I must be a magnet to crazy, drunk people. They always sit next to me on the train or bus and talk abouthow the end is near or they shout a few obscene words to me as I'm walking by. I don't know what it is. Do I have a look on my face that says to crazy people, "please talk to me." Do they get a feeling that maybe I'm not all that sane too? (I'm not the psycho-killer norman bates kind of crazy as Mr.ODB sings, I'm the I need my damn coffee or I'll rip my hair out crazy) ha-ha. Who knows why.The latest drunk to strike up a conversation with me was on, yup, you guessed it, that damn A-train again. I was staring out of the tagged up window looking into space completely in my own world when all of a sudden I hear a man's voice shout, "HEY, RAMONES!". "What the blood-clot is this guy talking about?", I think to myself. I had my headphones on (yes I still carry a disc-man around with me since I can't afford an I-Pod. For all the kids who don't know what a disc-man is, ask your older brothers and sisters). Anyway, I still heard him while listening to my very ancient disc-man because the damn cheap ass Sony headphones keep breaking on me. (Come on my damn disc-man still works and it's from the 90s, Sony can't get headphones right?) So I had Bob Dylan rolling like a stone in one ear and I hear the crazy guy again say,"RAMONES!" through the ear that had the broken headphone in it) Good God, please don't be talking to me, please don't let this motherfucker be talking to me is what I keep repeating over and over in my head with the one good working headphone blasting in it. He WAS talking to me, of course he was, I was the only person wearing a Ramones t-shirt on the train, unless he was seeing ghosts, but he wasn't that crazy.
At that point I was wishing I was an X-man, Night Crawler to be exact, so that I could disappear into the next subway car. He comes and sits down next to me. "This is just freaking lovely," I think to myself. I was in my own little world minding my own business and then this crazy Ramones fan comes and pulls me out of it into his. I then smell alcohol on his breath and look into his eyes cause if I ignored him I don't know what he would have done. I take the headphone that doesn't work off so that at least I still have Bob Dylan there with me in my head. His eyes were blue. They were also glossy from the massive amount of alcohol he must have been drinking. The A train was going to Rockaway Beach, and guess which song this blue-eyed drunk serenaded me with? Yup, you guessed it, "Rockaway Beach" by the Ramones. "It's not hard, not far to reach, you can hitch a ride to Rockaway Beach," he belted out. I was wishing he had hitched a damn ride to Rockaway Beach but no he got on the same train as I did. He then told me that he saw them live at cbgb's. I noticed that he had a few bags with him. I started to feel bad for him. Maybe that whatever was in those bags were his only belongings. He told me that Rockaway wasn't the same anymore and how he missed it and seeing the Ramones live. I wished I saw the Ramones live. but I was born too late. He seemed happy to be able to talk to someone about them. All I could do was smile and nod at his story. He asked where I lived, I lied, I did feel bad, but I didn't want him following me home. He then asked me which ones were still alive and didn't Neil Young sing a song about them?
"Here's a story 'bout Johnny Rotten...it's better to burn out, than to fade away," I felt like singing "my my hey hey," along with him, but didn't. I then told him that there was a Johnny Rotten in the Sex Pistols not in the Ramones. "Oh yeah, " he said, "the Sex Pistols," I noticed that my stop was coming up. I got up so fast and rushed to the doors, "Please don't let this guy follow me off the train, cuz if he does I'm gonna have to drop-kick his ass even if he is a Ramones fan," I thought to myself. (I talk to myself a lot in trains). I guess his drunk head was reading my mind cuz he didn't. I ran out, he yelled, "Thanks for the Ramones talk," and I just smiled. I kept looking behind me on the way home. Good, no crazy-drunk Ramones fan behind me. I got home safe and I thought about where that guy was going and that where ever he's going that he gets there safe too. Now I'll think twice about wearing my Ramones t-shirt. I hope that there are no crazy, drunk bums out there on the A-train who like pink Floyd.Kat Von D On Tom Green
Insane Driver
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Music: The Loving Loss
I was looking through music on Myspace trying to figure out what I was going to change my profile song to and I came across this spicy little band, The Loving Loss. They struck a cord with me and we are eager to feature them in our October issue.....so be on the lookout...if all goes well you'll be seeing more of them in our pages. Here is their bio we pulled from their Myspace page:
The pummeling hard rock assault of Los Angeles-based band The Loving Loss comes alive with their blistering 7-song debut, You Could Kill. The EP features the face peeling "Grave Digger," the melodic-infused murderous epic "You Could Kill" and the sonically searing anthem "All Is Lost." You Could Kill is a snarling set spawned in the underbelly of Hollywood that injects infectious hooks into a seedy undercurrent of raw riffage. Download the devastation now in its entirety on Myspace.
Culture: Bobby Black
So in the words of Bobby Black, the Editor from High Times.......let's go after the "Bigger, better deal." Bobby has been living a life that most of us can only dream about, but his philosophies on life and how people need to , "Share the cool" are really the epitome of what life should be about.
He understands the need to share a common goal with people and to help others through his celebrity. He has been all over the world and High Times has grown around him like the preverbal cannabis plant, stretching it's five-finger palms all over the place. He has influenced people all over the world and continues to amaze even the most blunted of individuals.
We wanted to get to know the man behind the infamous marijuana magazine that has led the way for others in search of pot related reading. So in a special October issue we will be bringing you Bobby Black in full detail as our cover story. You won't want to miss this!
Project Reloaded
Hey music fans, check out this cool website from germany entitled, projectreloaded.com! You can click the link below to go to the site. The site has a radio staion and some other cool things but be on the lookout for a possible collaboration with both websites. We are thinking about bringing a radio station to Voices via Alex amok from projectreloaded.com. This site has badass music and is a great site to visit. Go there now!
